Need help from university students

[Tugis]

Hi! i am a student from Portugal and i have a group work to do in which we need to know how it cost a person to study in FEUP (my university). We had the idea of comparing our results to other countries. But to do that we need your help. I need you to do something like this.

Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (Oporto, Portugal)
1. Food 1.90€ (how it costs a meal at your university)
2. Annual fees 900€ (how much do you pay to study at your university)
3.Bus ticket 20€ (how much do you pay to travel by bus monthly)
4. Other costs ?€ (essencialy the material you have to buy)

Thank you very much for your help.

[bhursey]

Clayton State University- www.clayton.edu
Tuition and Fees(one year)
Spring 2005 $1,629.00
Summer 2005 $1,058.00
Fall 2005 $1,715.00

Meals 5-7$ no meal plan

Trasportation (1houer drive) fill up 2-3 times a week at 30-40$ a fill up.

Laptop(requierd) 1000-3000$ one time cost.

[Goober]

Camosun College
Tuition and Fees (1 Semester, for Business): ~CAD1,500
Books: ~CAD400-500 per Semester, depends if you buy new or used (I got mine for 300 used
Bus Pass: CAD14/Month
Meals: Depends on what you buy, where you buy. I don't go to the cafeteria we have. Probably CAD5-6
Co-op: ~CAD400 per semester

Note: all currencies in Canadian Dollars (Beaver Bucks to some :p )

[jrib]

University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) www.upenn.edu
1. Food $6-12 (depends on what meal plan you purchase; the more you buy the cheaper each meal is)
2. Annual Tuition $32000
3. Dormitory Annual Cost (I live on Campus) $7700
4. Other costs? Bought a laptop my first year for $2000, but I don't know if you would include this as a cost for attending the school. Books are a couple hundred every year.
--currency is US dollars

O Porto este ano ganha, nao? (tambem sou portugues)

[lyam_kaskade]

University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Canada)

1. Food - meal plan is $1400-$1900 CAD / 4 months
(costs around $5-$7/meal)

2. Tuition fees ~$4400 / term (for engineering, other programs are around $2500/term I think)

3. Bus ticket - I don't take the bus, but I think it's around $40/month.

4. Other costs
-Residence fees ~$3000/term
-Books ~$550/term
my Laptop was $1700, though it isn't a requirement, just convenience.

All money is in CAD.

2. Annual Tuition $32000

Wow. are you an international student?

[drizek]

wow, european colleges are so much cheaper than US ones. 900E a year is cheaper than any college in the US.

how do they compare educationwise though?

[Brunellus]

your costs will likely be <i>far lower</i> than most of the North Americans who will respond, since the level of state subsidy across the board in Europe is much higher. So if you're looking for ammunition to batter the government/university authorities with, compare with similar institutions inside the EU.

[Lovechild]

Engineering school of Aarhus (IHA):
Food: no food plan but a cantina with varying prices and assortments is available
Fees: 0 USD (paid for via taxes)
Bus: I rode my bike nearly all year round but a 3 month buscard is: 68 USD, this grands you all day access to all busses in town.
Additional costs:
400USD per semester for books. (costs goes down as education progresses and you have fewer classes)
a membership of the students union is also recommended as it gives you cheaper books and access to a lot of benefits like study help and counselling, price is about 115 USD this includes the introduction trip which is a laugh.. a drunken one but a laugh. This is a onetime payment, also gives you the weekly engineering newspaper send to you by mail (a very good read btw.)
Getting a laptop is highly recommended as well let's say 2000 USD onetime payment

[Pablo_Escobar]

University of Economics :

1. Food 1.75€
2. Annual fees 0€
3.Bus ticket 12€ (how much do you pay to travel by bus monthly)
4. Other costs - couple of € (essencialy the material you have to buy)

:)

[Lovechild]

wow, european colleges are so much cheaper than US ones. 900E a year is cheaper than any college in the US.

how do they compare educationwise though?

Generally speaking of the engineering schools which is all I know of, we are well regarded in international circles. According to my ex gf, the same thing goes for the business school she went to.

Education prices are horribly inflated in the US.

Also remember that 900€ isn't the true cost, it's what the user in question pays, the rest is done via taxes so everyone helps pay your education as it's in societys best interest to get as many qualitied citizens educated.

[adwait]

Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College Of Engineering (Mumbai University) (www.frcrce.ac.in / www.mu.ac.in)
1. Food 0¬ (Carry my own lunch.....but if u want, u can have a decent lunch at about 1¬ )
2. Annual fees 744¬
3.Bus ticket 17¬ (I take a train and then a bus, so Ill just add it up...)
4. Other costs - 37 ¬ (max)

I can't get a euro sign to appear......anyway, those wierd signs at the end of the numbers are supposed to be euros.

[jbrader]

Pierce College, Washington State
$900/quarter tuition
~$30/month bus fare
~$6/day food
~$350/quarter books & supplies
Plus a few hundred per quarter for other incedentals and new clothes and stuff and of course I'm not including my costs of living and whatnot.

[Tugis]

University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) www.upenn.edu
1. Food $6-12 (depends on what meal plan you purchase; the more you buy the cheaper each meal is)
2. Annual Tuition $32000
3. Dormitory Annual Cost (I live on Campus) $7700
4. Other costs? Bought a laptop my first year for $2000, but I don't know if you would include this as a cost for attending the school. Books are a couple hundred every year.
--currency is US dollars

O Porto este ano ganha, nao? (tambem sou portugues)

Claro que ganha! Somos os maiores! ;)
Abraço.

[Lord Illidan]

In Malta the government pays university students to attend university. So it is free for us, though technically, we pay taxes...

[UbuWu]

Fees: 1500 euro/yr
Books: ~800 euro/yr
Food: don't know I never eat at university
Bus: I do everything walking or by bike, but all students have a card for free public transportation, so 0 euro

[macgyver2]

Well, I got my degree in May, but I'm still not too far removed to chip in...

Villanova University (http://www.villanova.edu/homepage/index.htm), Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States

Tuition and Fees: ~$37,000 per annum

Food: ~$6-$12 per meal (that's what they charge if you pay cash...the meal plans are a little bit less--but not much).

Mass transit: Don't know...furthest I lived from campus was a mile

Books: somewhere from $400-$600 per annum...that's after saving about 30-40% by buying online

[Collin]

College de Sherbrooke

tuition for a semester: 105$can
Books : ­~200$can
food: 5$can
bus: 40$ a month

That college offers pre-university classes (2 years) and trade qualification (3 years)

University here is about 1200$can for a year,
books are about 200-400$ per semester
and buses for the university of sherbrooke are free

[phen]

Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Tuition per year: 460€
actually, thats the fraction the students pay, rest is paid by the gov.

Tube: included in tuition (i like that most :-)

meal at the university: around 2 euro main dish, complete with a drink, dessert etc. 4-5€

apartments for students: around 200€ monthly. cannot give exact values, i live in the city!

[Brunellus]

Generally speaking of the engineering schools which is all I know of, we are well regarded in international circles. According to my ex gf, the same thing goes for the business school she went to.

Education prices are horribly inflated in the US.

Also remember that 900€ isn't the true cost, it's what the user in question pays, the rest is done via taxes so everyone helps pay your education as it's in societys best interest to get as many qualitied citizens educated.

in fairness, the cost-to-user differential reflects a basic difference in the way each society views higher education. In Europe, heavily-subsidized or free higher education is funded by increased general taxation and made sustainable by a selection process that ensures a very small minority access to those subsidized places.

In America, general taxation is by and large lower, and the consensus is that access should be as open as possible, but costs borne by the end-user, with fairly minimal direct governmental subsidy (small grants, subsidized student loans (subject to a means test), and state subsidies in the case of state-funded institutions).

Amazingly, last time I checked, more Americans were able to attend some sort of further education (if not complete a course) than Europeans; of course, the variation of their experiences is tremendous. On the other hand, relatively few Europeans make it all the way to and through university, but the ones I have met and had occasion to work with have all been uniformly well-educated in their specialties.

Just different ways of approaching a problem.

[Kimm]

I acctually dont go to colledge yet, but this is pretty much how it works in sweden:

Aproximate cost of Books: ~ €300

Then cost to live and eat depends on where you live and eat :P

The acctually tutoring is paid by the government.

[phen]

Brunellus: I don't know where you get your information from, but in the countries i know, that are germany and france, nearly every schoolgraduate can attend university. When parents are not able to pay for higher education, the government will support them with money that has to be paid back after graduation. except the french grandes ecoles, that are for a small elite (knowledge-elite) only, the universities are open to everybody.

there may be special courses that require high marks in the school leaving certificate, like medicine. you are not able to buy yourself into these courses. please explain how this system is not able to enable more people to go to university than in the u.s.?

what exactly is "some sort of further education" for you? maybe it is just a misunderstanding?

cheers!

[Dr. Nick]

University of Texas
Tutition an Fees : appx US 5000 per year
Living : standard appartment rates, I live off campus but assume its 400-500 per month divisible by number of room mates
Food : No meal plans at my campus, other UT Campus have them, not sure on pricing, Cost of food is $4-5 for the on campus fast food places
Books : 300 or so used off ebay , 500 or so new
Not sure of transit as their is not school bus, just city, I drive a few miles so about $50 a month for gas, I go other places then school so maybe 20 if thats all I went

[poofyhairguy]

Hi! i am a student from Portugal and i have a group work to do in which we need to know how it cost a person to study in FEUP (my university). We had the idea of comparing our results to other countries. But to do that we need your help. I need you to do something like this.

Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (Oporto, Portugal)
1. Food 1.90€ (how it costs a meal at your university)
2. Annual fees 900€ (how much do you pay to study at your university)
3.Bus ticket 20€ (how much do you pay to travel by bus monthly)
4. Other costs ?€ (essencialy the material you have to buy)
5. Rent- about $400

Thank you very much for your help.

Texas A&M University

1. Food $3.50-$6. $6 for each meal plan.
2. Tuition- $4400 a semster
3. Bus- included in tuition
4. Other costs- about $500 a semster for books

I think its a pretty good deal because before I went to a school that cost my family $30000 a year.

[bluemuffin]

Univeristy of the Philippines at Los Banos

Cost estimates for one year (in Philippine Pesos)

Food = 30,000.00
Annual Fees = 20,000.00
Bus/Jeepney Fare = 25,000.00
Other costs (including girlfriend/s?) = 30,000.00

:p

[oddabe19]

Millersville University of Pennsylvania www.millersville.edu

I commute, but I share an apartment with 2 other guys ($635/month ~$212 per person)
Tuition ~$2900 per semester ~$5500 per year (in state).... ~$5000 per semester (out of state, yes, i was paying that for a long time, it sucks).
I'm not sure what the room and board is now, i think it's somewhere around
$2500 per year or semester, i'm not sure...

I did goto Delaware Tech for awhile that was about $750 per semester, made one hell of a difference in my budget :)